VACATION HOME
Hyde Park: Drafty, 100-year-old Michigan cottage, inherited from great-grandfather. No Internet, just hardbound copies of Henry Esmond and This Side of Paradise.
North Shore: 10,000-square-foot Door County mansion with boat launch and private beach, built in 2002.
SIGNATURE QUOTE:
Hyde Park: “In Hyde Park, we don’t judge people by the color of their skin. We judge them by how many books they’ve read.”
North Shore: Father to a security guard during a dispute at a graduation ceremony in Ravinia: “I make more money than you.”
HIGH SCHOOL
Hyde Park: University of Chicago Lab School, Kenwood Academy
North Shore: New Trier, North Shore Country Day

FAVORITE SPORT
Hyde Park: Reading
North Shore: Polo

FAVORITE LOCAL COLLEGE
Hyde Park: University of Chicago
North Shore: Lake Forest College

FAVORITE IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE
Hyde Park: Harvard
North Shore: Yale
MOST FAMOUS LINE DELIVERED BY A LOCAL CELEBRITY ACTOR
Hyde Park: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!” (Mandy Patinkin, The Princess Bride.)
North Shore: “Oh, it’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!” (Bill Murray, Caddyshack.)
BUYS CLOTHES AT
Hyde Park: Lands’ End Catalog
North Shore: Neiman-Marcus in Northbrook Court
OVERSEXED LOCAL MUSICIAN
Hyde Park: R. Kelly
North Shore: Liz Phair
POLITICAL STATUS SYMBOL
Hyde Park: Claiming you knew Barack Obama before he was famous.
North Shore: Telling people you went to New Trier East when Rahm went to New Trier West.
STATUS ADDRESS
Hyde Park: Anywhere within sight of Obama’s house
North Shore: East of Green Bay Road. (“In Kenilworth, we have the kennel side and the worth side.”)

BOOKSTORE
Hyde Park: Seminary Co-op, where Obama has been a member since 1986.
North Shore: The Book Stall, where Donald Rumsfeld signed “Known and Unknown.”

ENTERTAINMENT
Hyde Park: University of Chicago Lecture Series
North Shore: Ravinia